GENDER 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Biopower, Tubal Ligation, Virginity Test
22 Jan 2018
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Studied social institutions - psychiatry, medicine, the prison system, and human sexuality. The idea of disciplinary power in society, creating a foundation in the society we live in today. If you do not pay tribute, you will be put to death. Death was made a spectacle - meant to ensure that people would follow. Sovereign always has the power to put people to death. The power of society is vested on the king. Deals with managing death, birth, reproductions, illness, etc power over life. Power is exerted on individual bodies and created as docile bodies. How people are disciplined in ways that are seen in the interest of greater social body greater social body. Society is possible through the punishment and creation of docile bodies. People who embody masculinity were brave and at the front. Efficient military unit- fighting machine - having strongest in front and reserves in the back to continue fighting the war.
